Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emissions through Improved Energy Efficiency in Buildings

The Alliance is pleased to contribute a chapter to the Presidential Climate Action Plan, which will provide the next President of the United States with guidelines for tackling the three interrelated problems of climate change, energy stability and national security. The Alliance report Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emissions through Improved Energy Efficiency in Buildings will serve as the foundation of the section to be titled Low-Carbon Buildings—the actual chapter in the PCAP report will be slightly shorter, due to space constraints. This study includes policy recommendations to put the buildings sector on track to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80% below 1990 levels by 2050.

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This paper is an updated version of the paper written for the first edition of the PCAP, completed before the passage of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (currently available on the Presidential Climate Action Plan Web site. The updated PCAP is to be released in September of 2008.

Led by the University of Colorado, PCAP includes input and contributions from leading representatives from academia, the sciences, business, and environmental advocacy organizations.